WHEN

WHERE

Sign Up

The number of participants for the workshop is limited. Please sign up by sending an email to cs (at) science-et-cite.ch by January 15 if you would like to take part in the workshop, or in the afternoon session, or both.

Costs

Costs: There is such a thing as a free lunch (maybe not at Wallstreet, but at the Haus der Akademien)

Schedule:

NEW Program

a hands-on workshop in the morning and early afternoon

a network meeting (network news, 3 short talks on biohacking and a long discussion) in the afternoon.

Impressions

Slides

Workshop

Collecting genetic information for citizen science
Citizen science is not something new that arrived with DIYbiology or the era of crowd-sourcing. It has deep roots in formal societies, activist groups and other informal collectives of people that observe and documenting wildlife, natural resources, uncovering pollution, to name a few.
With the DIY OpenPCR, and other simple equipment available in the generic lab equipment, what could be a citizen science project that could be molecular?
There are already projects out there.

Armpit Life - where 2 day unwashed armpits are swabbed for culture and microbiome (deep sequencing) analysis (US)

We will be taking samples from the workshop participants (with their consent), and throughout the day, we will try to PCR out their genotypes of the dopamine 4 receptor and the serotonin transporter, and observing the differences amongst us.
These types of activities bring forth several questions of genetic privacy, who owns the data, open questions of genetics on our lives - how should these results be interpreted?